Word: sloganism
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...they can benefit from the experience of protest movements of the sixties and avoid polarization. Probably a good 90 per cent of the people in this country want to "Send a Message to Wall Street," and even if they all have different messages now, uniting them behind this baseline slogan opens the way for more sophisticated analysis in the future and, eventually, united mass action...
...slung buildings with dark mansard roofs. But when Salem, Mass., a small city proud of its 18th century buildings, insisted that a proposed new Burger King had to complement the town's colonial architecture, the chain drew the line. Instead of responding with its well-known slogan, "Have it your way," Burger King abandoned its plans to build in Salem...
...group of 30 slogan-chanting demonstrators yesterday marched in front of the First National Bank of Boston on Federal Street charging that the bank's investment policy supports a military dictatorship in Argentina...
...outcasts in their own land, if they would draw upon their own resources and replace the sea of North American trash with their own culture--if they would do all this, they must continue fighting with guns as well as words. In the words of a spray-painted slogan on the walls of a poor neighborhood in Leon. "There will be a Christmas for everyone or there will be a Christmas...
...remember him solely for this final volume is like recalling a life by its terminal illness. Indeed when he wrote 1984, Orwell was in the last throes of tuberculosis. The book's pervasive slogan, "Big Brother Is Watching You"; the portmanteau words "New-speak," "bellyfeel," "doublethink"; the inverted graffiti, "Freedom Is Slavery," "Ignorance Is Strength"-all these may be indelible. Nonetheless, if some of 1984's predictions have come true, most have not. If the book lives, it is more as a warning than as prophecy...